Location: Chicagoland
Website: Elio House

Elio is a rapidly rising star of the ink and paper. With a children’s book on the way in ’09, a director credit on several animations for Yo Gabba Gabba!, and a webcomic on Top Shelf, Elio is making quite a name for himself! (just don’t confuse him with the lettering artist!)

I became familiar with Elio through Drawn!, and I immediately stared watching his Flickr pages like a hound, and then we started tweeting and emailing a bit as well. It’s a fully internet-enabled relationship so far. Though I wouldn’t recognize his face, I can spot an Elio illo from a mile away, and now you can too!